Category Archives: Canada

D-Day veteran from Abbotsford, B.C., to receive France's highest honour
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia Second World War veteran who landed at Normandy on D-Day 80 years ago will be presented with France's highest decoration in a ceremony in Vancouver today. Joseph Vogelge...
Jun 06, 2024

Screen all adolescent patients for eating disorders, new pediatric guidance says
The Canadian Paediatric Society is urging primary-care providers to screen all adolescent patients for eating disorders during routine checkups and other medical visits. The society released new guide...
Jun 05, 2024

B.C. teachers' union denies Holocaust education group funds, recognition: advocates
VANCOUVER - Jewish organizations say the British Columbia Teachers' Federation has denied specialist recognition of a Holocaust education group, making it ineligible to receive union funding as a teac...
Jun 05, 2024

Wildfire plan wants 50% of Canadians to act in response to climate change by 2025
CRANBROOK, B.C. - Canadian federal, provincial and territorial forest ministers have signed on to a national strategy that they say aims to raise awareness of wildfire risks across the country. B.C. F...
Jun 05, 2024

Space for Algonquin Peoples to open near Parliament, but no date set
OTTAWA - Algonquin leaders and the federal government have signed an agreement committing to a new space for Algonquin Peoples in Ottawa's parliamentary precinct, five years after the former grand chi...
Jun 05, 2024

Bank of Canada cuts key interest rate to 4.75%
PRINCE GEORGE - The Bank of Canada has cut its key interest rate a quarter point to 4.75%, the first time the bank has cut the rate in more than four years.The first rate cut since March 2020 comes as...
Jun 05, 2024

Israel denies link to Islamophobic campaign in Canada that Meta says originated there
OTTAWA - The Israeli government is being accused in published reports of involvement in an operation aimed at reducing support for Palestinians in Canada that was flagged by artificial intelligence re...
Jun 05, 2024

Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté fined $24,000 in Tahiti over cannabis use
PAPEETE - A representative for Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Lalibert says the Canadian entrepreneur has been fined about $24,000 for cannabis possession in French Polynesia. Anne Dongois says a court ...
Jun 05, 2024

Trudeau congratulates Modi re-election, raises rule of law in India relationship
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is congratulating his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on his re-election, while reinforcing the importance of the rule of law. Modi won a weeks-long election Tu...
Jun 05, 2024

Trial to begin Thursday in murder-conspiracy case tied to Coutts border blockade
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - The trial for two men charged with conspiracy to commit murder during the border protest at Coutts, Alta., is set to begin Thursday. Anthony Olienick and Chris Carbert were arreste...
Jun 05, 2024